What Little Niggling Details will be left?

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 170920

> zgirnius:
> If this is never addressed again, I would consider it a settled 
> question. The point of having the door creak, as far as I am 
> concerned, is to point out to the curious re-reader of the scene 
> just when Snape entered the picture. It is my opinion that if 
> Rowling imagined Snape sitting around in the hallway for some odd 
> reason, listening, and then deciding for some other odd reason to 
> come into the room, and continue listening, she would have included 
> some other, earlier, clue to his presence.

Mike:
I think you're right. Can I retract this niggler? :)


> > Mike:
> > Was all the  writing that of a young Severus or did someone
> > else ::cough, Lily, cough:: make some contributions? 
>
> zgirnius:
> If Lily wrote in that book, we *will* be hearing about it. 
> Otherwise, yes, these are not likely to be addressed.

Mike:
I forgot a couple more about the potions book. Are all the notes, 
spells, wisecracks, etc. from Snape's school days, or did he continue 
to add to the book well after his NEWTs? IOW, I really wonder if 
Snape might have continued his potions improvements well into his 
teaching stint and just found it convenient to continue using that 
book. Yes, there may be a better potions texts by the time Harry goes 
to Hogwarts, but maybe in Snape's eyes these newer texts don't equal 
Snape's improvements to the older recipes.

If Lily had a hand in the writing, yes we will hear about it. But if 
it was someone else, like maybe Eileen, I don't see that one being 
revisited. 

And the other obvious question, how did James learn the Levicorpus 
spell? For that matter, how did Severus invent nonverbal spells 
before his 5th year when the Trio don't even start getting taught 
nonverbals until their 6th year? 

It really seems that Hogwarts has regressed in it's student 
advancement, compared to Snape and the Marauder's generation. Also, 
Orphan_Ann has got it right, the Trio have nothing on their preceding 
generation when it comes to daring and originality.



> > By the book nigglers:
> > 2. What happened to the Weasley's Ford Anglia? 
> 
> zgirnius:
> I thought we would be seeing it again, according to an interview? 
> Or is that Sirius's motorbike I am thinking of...

Mike:
Yes, it was the motorbike that's suppose to make a curtain call.



> > Mike:
> > 6. Is that house in Spinner's End the Prince family home?
> 
> zgirnius:
> Is that your theory about it? I thought it might be the Snape  
> family home.

Mike:
Well, that's why it's on this list. <g> I just think it odd to enter 
a house into a room completely lined with bookshelves, where all the 
doors are hidden behind said shelves. Doesn't seem like a Muggle 
design to me. But I suppose the Snapes could have been eccentric 
Muggles.


> > Mike:
> > What did Bella mean by, "his most precious --"?
> > How did RAB get the locket out of the Birdbath of Doom? Or did he 
> > swap them out before the real locket even made it to the cave?
> 
> zgirnius:
> These I am betting we get an answer to. I tend to think they are 
> related.

Mike:
I too think they are related, as I'm in the camp that believes Reggie 
swapped the locket on Bella before she put it in the cave. Yet, I 
don't see it being answered because it's not important to the hunt 
and/or the destruction of that Horcrux, imo. Water under the bridge 
and Harry won't care *how* the locket got out, just that the locket 
*did* get out.